Millennials know all about this. And the hate-mongers of today will die with nobody to remember them

Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.

Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

Apparently she got dumped by the campaign team.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/laura-loomer-anti-republican-posts-donald-trump-travel/

I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn't even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead

The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won't accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it's good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can't think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.

Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that's motivational and doesn't slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can't turn into immediate results.

We need to get better at allowing righteous anger

That is frustrating. I would counter those people that being passionate is not the same thing as extremist media personalities that literally profit off outrage. It's okay to hear and react to things, but we shouldn't all be open fucking sores that flip out over literally every single thing we encounter like an autistic toddler: all emotion, no perspective, can't be reasoned with, etc. That's the Republican Outage Machine...

The First Labor of Heracles is reeling right now

Maybe we should be mad as hell

Here's the comic. Thanks, it was a good read.

I'm an atheist, however my personal interpretation of the afterlife is how people remember you. That way you're judged by your peers (all of humanity).

So arguably being famous is a very good deal, as many more people will remember you. However if you're a shitty bastard, like Limbaugh, you'll be remembered as a greedy count for quite some time before forgetfulness sets in.

Deservedly so imho

You can either make somthing for younger generations. Or burn what's been built for your own pleasure.

Boomers made thier choice

Even if you cared about legacy, realistically, how many people are remembered for more than a few generations, if they are remembered at all?

Even the majority of the leaders of nations are only remembered by historians, people with a high interest in history and briefly by some students studying for their next test, and these will be mainly the leaders of their own country. Unless they did something exceptional good or bad.

And then there are a few exceptional high achieving writers, inventors, scientists and academics. Even within their field most become irrelevant and forgotten after a few decades.

Some ordinary people who did extraordinary things might also be remembered.

But if you compare that to the enormous amount of people who have lived and died, basically no one will be remembered after their death. I'm not making excuses for the bad behaviors of horrible people, I'm just saying that losing all relevance and not being remembered after death isn't special.

I don't think that most of the people we might consider evil have that level of self-awareness. Certainly those with a pathological lack of empathy are overrepresented in the highest echelons of power. It doesn't logically follow that they see themselves as bad.

Tarquin ! What a beautiful reference. Sadly still as pertinent as ever.

Just to clarify your answer a little bit: this has nothing to do with atheism, nor that atheists think like this. Many of these asshats actually are religious and somehow with mental gymnastics tell themselves they're righteous and good and that they'll get into some imaginary heaven because of their hateful behavior.

This has more to do with mental illness like narcissism, and psychopathy than them being atheist

What exactly is legacy, right? genghis khan had a legacy, but what is beyond his crazy libido?

But why would you want to remember he even existed?

Ugh another reason for why Missouri is the worst state

That was a beautiful alliteration, but in reality it's 24/7.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ucj09t9ieeI he was a scat muncher

He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

I wouldn't wish for anyone's death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.

I'll never forget "There's no words on it!"

I still don't really understand his guest roles on family guy. He had to have known he was the joke, but still did it anyway.

The current ones are good at it. I hope those who follow are less competent

Allegedly $600 mil.

Hope it was worth it. The world was objectively a better place when he died. I wonder if he thought about all the hate he spread while he lay dying.

Didn't Rush die of cancer? A rare cancer W!

Nor did I. Wikipedia says complications of lung cancer from his lifetime of smoking

I suspect the complication was inability to breathe

You have no idea? Might want to check that out. May have been born without a useful chunk of your brain. Just concerned about you.

And I wouldn't know who they are but for the memes ridiculing them. LOL

It must be exhilarating to you to imagine that you're being clever.